This majestic palace that overlooks the Grand Canal was built, by the will of the merchant Marino Contarini, between 1421 and 1443. It seems that numerous artists took to the realization such as Matteo Raverti, master stonecutter who created the staircase of the courtyard and the tunnel of the loggia of the first floor, Giovanni and Bartolomeo Bon, architects and sculptors who completed the façade and created the tunnel of the portico and the red marble wellhead, Niccolò Romanello, sculptor who carved the flower of the main entrance and the capitals of the columns of the loggia upper and first
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